This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD; throughout your generations you ...shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day shall be cut off from Israel. On the first day you shall hold a solemn assembly, and on the seventh day a solemn assembly; no work shall be done on those days; only what everyone must eat, that alone may be prepared by you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of th...e cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off fr...om others lands, but a continent that joins to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

To anyone who still feels that there must be an identity of logical form between language and reality, I can only plead that the c...onception of language as a mirror of reality is radically mistaken. We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut knows that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience. But in order to do so, it is enough that it should be apt for the expression of everything that is or might be the case. To be content with less would be to be satisfied to be inarticulate; to ask for more is to desire the impossible. No roads lead from grammar to metaphysics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

My gowns were gorgeous, always low-cut, very décolleté. I wore hardly any makeup, just some lipsticks, that's all. No lights. Ju...st a baby spot. I wouldn't have any entrance. They'd play the intro in the dark, and a spot would come on, and there I'd be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that soci...ety is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I used to like this town.... Los Angeles was just a big dry sunny place with ugly homes and no style, but good-hearted and peacefu...l.... Now ... we've got the big money, the sharpshooters, the percentage workers, the fast dollar boys, the hoodlums out of New York and Chicago and Detroit--and Cleveland. We've got the flash restaurants and night clubs they run, and the hotels and apartment houses they own, and the grifters and con men and female bandits that live in them. The luxury trades, the pansy decorators, the Lesbian dress designers, the riff-raff of a big hardboiled city with no more personality than a paper cup.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Twenty-four hours a day somebody is running, somebody else is trying to catch him. Out there in the night of a thousand crimes peo...ple were dying, being maimed, cut by flying glass, crushed against steering wheels or under heavy car tires. People were being beaten, robbed, strangled, raped, and murdered. People were hungry, sick, bored, desperate with loneliness or remorse or fear, angry, cruel, feverish, shaken by sobs. A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers,... completely cut off from our habits and friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »